Posted on 05/04/2015 2:11:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Changes in the Arctic Ocean are so profound that the region is entering what amounts to "a new era", according to Norwegian scientists.
A switch from a permanent cover of thick ice will have far-reaching implications, they say.
The Norwegian Polar Institute has been mounting an expedition to the Arctic Ocean during the year's coldest months.
The director of the institute, Jan-Gunnar Wanker, said that measuring what happens in the winter was vital to improving scenarios for future climate change.
"A new era has entered, we are going from old ice to young ice, thinner ice and the climate models used today have not captured this new regime or ice situation.
"So knowing how it is today can improve climate models which again improve the projection for global climate change."
This research effort comes as US scientists have reported that the maximum extent of Arctic sea-ice was recorded at its lowest winter level since satellite records began.
Another biologist taking part in the expedition, Dr Philipp Myass, said it was important to understand how some species might benefit from the ocean having less ice cover - as more sunlight would allow plankton to flourish - while others would suffer.
"We know that the organisms living in the ocean will actually increase because there will be more light available for them to grow.
The expedition is attempting to provide a comprehensive assessment of all key aspects of this part of the Arctic Ocean.
Dr Bologna Itkin has been deploying tracking devices on the ice-floes so that the movement and thinning of the ice can be observed after the expedition ends in June. "We would like to understand how the sea ice cover in this part of the Arctic is behaving in, let's call it, the new climate.
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And the old lie just keeps rolling along.
Help! The fish are drowning! No, wait...
Dr Bologna Who was his associate? Oscar Meyer.
That was just awful.
Seriously, though, didn’t an environmental ship get stuck in ice so badly that three others ships got stuck trying to rescue it just last year.
Expedition requirement: phone number to the nearest Russkie ice breaker.
Full title: Myth of Arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago...despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now
Yet the ice caps keep freezing up in the winters.......
The Hubris of these jackasses, we have had volcanic eruptions totoally alter climates and cause mini-ice ages, yet humans with their CO2 are the big bad climate boogie men...
“”we are going from old ice to young ice, thinner ice and the climate models used today have not captured this new regime or ice situation.”
Say wha...? The models didn’t predict this?
Then why should we trust them with any other prediction?
These global worming idiots seem unable to see the larger picture, today’s climate in/with contextual relevance.
I think we’re all pretty much agreed that they are simply Marxists trying to leverage for political gain though.
I think it was a tour ship filled with a--hole cafeteria environmentalists not listening to reality as usual.
When the captain wanted to scoot because of imminent icing, they wanted to keep taking pictures out on the ice, delaying departure until nature did what nature does in such conditions.
Less ocean ice means more precipitation over the landmass.
Less ocean ice means more precipitation over the landmass. No more polar desert.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Margaret Sanger?
Lída Baarová. I learned something today. Yay!
SQUIRREL!!!
Yeah...after the medieval warming period that lasted about four hundred years and raised the average temp. by five degrees or more, everything on earth died, and we aren’t here.
Yes, but that as the new sticky ice, not the old slippery ice.
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